The Irish standard., 1887-01-08
lABoUCHERE ON IRELAND.
A L rye and Enthusiastic Home Rule
Meeting in Manchester, Eng
land, at Which
THE EDITOR OF LONDON TRUTH
liz the Chief Speaker, and He Scores tie
Tory Government in Most
Unmerciful Manner.

Mr.. Labouchere was the chief speaker
at great Home Rule meeting held IN
ST. James Hall, Manchester. There
were six or seven thousand persons
present, and the proceedings were OF a
very enthusiastic character. The chall
was taken by Mr.. Southon, and amongst
those present were Mr.. E. Peacock
Ii. p; Mr.. A. D. Provand, NJ. F.;
MIR. Caleb Wright, M. p; Mr. W. IL.
Holland; MIR. B. Pickard, M. F., etc.
After some remarks from the chairman
Mr.. A. o. proyand, M. F., moved:
."rhat the best interests both Of Great
Britain and ireland imperatively re.
cuire that the great effort to give q
better Government to Ireland, which
was begun by MIR. Gladstone, should De
firmly persevered in until desirable
settlement is arrived at; that such
settlement must meet the views and
wishes Of the Irish electors as ex-
pressed by their constitutional repre-
sentatives in Parliament; and that the
only plan which will satisfy either the
justice or the policy or the case is that
OF an Irish legislative body for the
management of what Parliament shall
decide to be distinctly Irish affairs.
He urged that it was their duty to
force the Government at the earliest
possible moment to inform the public
what really was their policy in refer
ence to Ireland, because ne believed
that the present quietude rested simply
upon hope in the Liberal party (cheers).
Mr.. Caleb Wright. M. F., seconded
the resolution. which Was put and cor
ried unanimously.
MIR. H. Labouchere, M. P, on rising
to speak, was received with loud
cheers. He said that a great political
xog now existed, but they did not 1nean
that to be permanent. It was true that
they sustained great defeat at the last
election, and the guns which they them
selves hoped 10 WELD were turned
against them by their oW! friends
lhear, hear.) This state Of affairs, how
ever, could not be permitted to exist;
but to remove it the Liberal party must
have good programme to fight for.
He believed that the Manchester school
of politics, which was not now for the
first time heard OF, had become the
Radical school Of the country (hear}.
The fall Of the last Government was
due to two causes, one direct, and one
indirect. In the first place they had not
full and sufficient programme, and
Liberal performances did not always
come up to Liberal promises lcheers),
But now they had the Home Rule pro.
Rramme of Mr.. Gladstone and upon
that he believed they were all agreed
lcheers). He had been Home Ruler
for many years, and he believed that
the bill Of MI. Gladstone would have
passed into law had common sense pre-
vailed and had not misrepresentation
been made by those who had an interest
in Misrepresentation (cheers), There
was no doubt tnat Ireland was dis
satisfied. There could be no doubt also
that there were differences between
England and Ireland differences of
race and nationality. aud Il sea divided
them cloud cheers). He was not going
to refer to the wisdom of their ancestors
-tbxy might have been all right in
their way, but the world had progressed
since they netook themselves to their
graves (laughter). But the wisdom Of
their ancestors did not recognize q Par
lament in ireland. and they had swept
it away, not ny fair means, but by the
basest and viIest corruption lcheersl
Since then they had been engaged try
ing to make Irishmen Englishmen IA
laugh), but in this they should
never succeed (cheers). What had Mr..
Chamberlain been ,ing of late-where
had lie betaken himself to? Why to
Turkey, in order to persuade the Sultan
to give autonomy to the races over
which he presided. whereas he would
nOC give dUtOtlO"y w tiAc 1liSi. pGtpl6
(cheers). However, if the Sultan had
not given the autonomy suggested he
had given MI. Chamberlain a snuff box.
He had every reason to believe in the
success of the Home Rule project. be-
cause they could not continue this war
against nature (cheers). He could
quite see the reason why the English
people could not assent to Home Rule.
they believed itwould be eagainst their
interest. The classes we're against that
democracy which had Of late wears
maGe such rapid progress (cheers). The
Parliament af 1885 was the most radical
and democratic which ever assembled,
but oslong as the government Of the
country was in the hands Of the classes
they could perpetuate the differences